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Metro New One from JAB'M Metro New One is a JAB'M font family with 1 style priced from $15.00. Click the Purchase Options button below to view pricing and availability information. |
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Design Credits
First seen on MyFonts: April 17th, 2008
Designed by: Marco Miniussi
Designed when: 2007
Design owned by: JAB'M
MyFonts Keywords: 1900s, artdeco, artnouveau, bistro, french, metro [suggest]
Metro New One
The main inspiration is from Art Nouveau which flourished in Europe at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. This design included furnitureís (Majorelle, Lalique) and architecture (Victor Horta, Henry Van de Velde, Gaudi, Alfons Mucha). But Hector Guimard remains the favorite for all aspects of its art and, of course, its typefaces used on the Parisian Metropolitan posters. In particular, the various kerning of the various letters he used to make the poster a whole design from singular designs, leading to numerous variations.
As a designer, I first worked with the individual glyphs Hector Guimard designed and I discovered that they vary constantly from a poster to another, depending on the overall result he was looking for. Another difficulty in transferring his design to printing is that there was no lower case. I was excited to create the whole font from the original designs of Hector Guimard, incorporating its variations and “crazy kerning”. After several attempts, it appeared to be impossible to include all variations and I slightly moved to my own new design as a complete font, upper and lower case, with kerning. I voluntarily limited the ascenders and descenders to the usual typography so that it can be used from 10 / 12 points.
This version can be used to edit letters and books in the context of Art, specially Art Nouveau and Art Deco of course, posters of any king.
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